A
recent study from Europe indicates the rates of back and neck pain
continue to soar and exist as a worldwide problem for all societies.
According to their findings from studying 600 males aged 35 to 70 years
old, the one-year prevalence of back
and neck pain was as follows: 17 percent for mid-back pain, 64 percent
for neck pain and 67 percent for lower back pain. In terms of
severity of pain, the most severe and disabling tended to be those
suffering from bouts of lower back pain followed by mid-back pain and
neck pain. Fortunately, your local chiropractor is willing, able and
professionally trained to help!

A new study on animals will promote further studies that may help those men suffering from prostate cancer. According to findings from this new study, increased amounts of omega-3 fatty acids can slow the progression of prostate cancer.
Omega-3 fatty acids are largely found in cold-water fish that are,
unfortunately, not abundant in the diets of most North Americans. North
Americans do tend to have very high levels of omega-6 fatty acids that
are present in large quantities in corn and other vegetable based oils.
Unfortunately, omega-6 fatty acids do not share those health benefits
of omega-3 fatty acids. According to researchers, the ratio of omega-6
to omega-3 fatty acids in the Western diet is around 15 to 1. Through
dietary changes and omega-3 supplementation, researchers suggested
getting the ratio around 2 to 1 or even lower. Higher levels of omega-3
fatty acids help to fight inflammation that in turn can slow tumor
growth and progression as well as promote the healing of injured
tissues.

New
research reveals males who were involved with athletics in their later
teens had bone-building advantages later in life, regardless of future
training. Weight training as well as weight-bearing aerobic
training helps to increase bone mineral density or BMD. The more dense
the bone, the less likely there will be a fracture. Thus, those with
higher BMDs, especially in the pelvic region  where many osteoporotic
fractures occur in the aging  have a lesser likelihood of fall-related
fractures. Bone fractures due to falling are all too common in the
elderly and, due to the lack of mobility that followings, often result
in serious to terminal health conditions such as pneumonia. According
to researchers of this study, even those active male athletes who
stopped training later in life would likely reduce their future
fracture risk by 50 percent.

Some
of the serious side effects experienced by female breast cancer
survivors is a subsequent decrease in quality of life as well as an
overall lingering fatigue. Past
research has found that cancer survivors are able to successfully
counteract these symptoms through participation in aerobic-type
activity including walking, jogging and involvement in other
cardiorespiratory activities. A new study now finds strength-building
resistance weight training similarly shares these same beneficial
outcomes. In the study, one group of breast cancer survivors
participated in three 90-minute exercise sessions per week consisting
of resistance exercises for the body. Another group of breast cancer
survivors simply continued on with their lives as usual. Women involved
with resistance training showed significant improvements in quality of
life as well as a decrease in fatigue. Those women continuing on with
life as usual showed no improvements whatsoever.